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Da days. they require all 100 members to reach an agreement to have a vote. they do not have that agreement yet. even though the amendments are likely to fail. one amendment in particular that you mentioned created an issue. mike lee of utah pushed that amendment. there is concern among democratic leaders that that could actually pass. so democrats have been working behind the scenes to stave that off, offer their own alternative amendment to give members something else to vote for. not the mike lee amendment and assuming that both measures will fail. so all these negotiations happening behind...

When i see american people get hosed by obamacare. what they are doing is taking legislation. what they have is horrible, it's a disaster. i am encouraged that they might actually go back and take elements of lindsey graham and bill cassidy's bill and the ted cruz and mike lee amendment and have something that resembles a free market, federalism, block grants for medicaid, having states in the governor's the right to decide -- >> harris: geraldo, happy friday. one thing they want to do, house speaker paul ryan said they would look at trying to talk about this and go into committee and the sena...

The august recess, because when they return, remember, they are going to have the budget fight. and the legislative calendar is coming to its end very rapidly. before you know it, there's not going to be any days left for lawmakers to get this done, so they know they have to do it soon and we're starting to witness the perils of leadership strategy, which seem to be negotiating mostly with conservatives, adding the ted cruz, mike lee amendment, or at least the spirit of it was included in the changes made to the revised senate bill. now they are having more trouble bringing the moderates on bo...

Terms of policy. we have conservatives who want less mandate that leads to this ted cruz, mike lee amendment that would free up health insurers to offer up plans at a lower cost. different things i think they are trying to try in order to try to call that 50-note majority. but there is no magic pill. arthel: let's move on to various states. let's move on as we well know, candidate trump campaigned on repeal and replace obamacare, and he won the electoral college, 304 points to hillary clinton's 227. with 46% of the popular vote, is that considered a mandate? does president trump have some